[Leica] Retouching enlargements experience?
Lluis Ripoll
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 15:15:51 PST 2019
Thank you Ric,
Please look at my response to Jayanand, I think this is not what I’m looking for.
Lluis
> El 18 febr 2019, a les 4:41, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
>
> DITTO!!
>
> ric
>
>
>> On Feb 17, 2019, at 10:23 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>>
>> Luis,
>> My advice would be to digitize the negative, clean it up, convert it to a
>> digital negative and then do your darkroom prints.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:45 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Back in the day: start with distilled water filtered for all your mixing of
>>> chemicals and rinsing negatives in photoflo. Use a clean soft pad to
>>> remove excess wetting agent or what I used at the end, denatured alcohol
>>> leaving the film on the reels.. Then I had a custom built film dryer that
>>> basically used a hairdryer sucking in air through a hepa filter and into a
>>> metal tube that held the reels of film. So, most of the time the film was
>>> clean and straight into sleeves.
>>>
>>> When enlarging blow the negatives off with an air compressor through a hepa
>>> filter. If you still have dust spots then, sigh, there is nothing but spot
>>> tone inks and a really fine brush. Become the artist and mix the colors
>>> until you get the tone right, much easier typed than done. I will say that
>>> once you have standardized on a paper and developer you learn the mix and
>>> it becomes a lot easier. Wearing one of those binocular magnifiers you see
>>> jewelers and watch repair techs use carefully put really tiny dots of ink
>>> down in the dust spot building the density up with more dots. Let it dry
>>> between as the density changes as it dries. This is a true art/craft and
>>> it gets much easier the more you do it. I have to say that I was doing a
>>> lot of this for myself and others who gave up learning.
>>>
>>> But, with a smile, spotting is so much easier using Adobe's tools.
>>>
>>> All the best, and just like using an M, there is a learning curve in seeing
>>> color in the B&W and a steady hand with the brush along with a whole lot of
>>> patience.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:22 PM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve, mon ami
>>>>
>>>> I will share the answer with you if I find it…..
>>>>
>>>> Amitiés
>>>> Lluis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> El 18 febr 2019, a les 1:19, Stephen Barbour via LUG <
>>>> lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
>>>>>
>>>>> Well put, agree with all including your ending question.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone, Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 17, 2019, at 4:12 PM, Lluis Ripoll via LUG <
>>> lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I’ve encountered sometimes when I enlarge a small dust like small
>>> hairs
>>>> that ruin the enlargement. I clean it, I look to the negative with a
>>>> magnifier 8X but sometimes I’ve removed the dust from one point to
>>> another
>>>> point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To clean the nregative I’m using PEC PAD with the special tissues
>>>> provided but sometimes a supplementary action on the enlargement would be
>>>> necessary. I think it is very difficult do a good retouching and make a
>>>> similar tone to the one of the print.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some experiences about cleaning better the negatives or applying
>>>> retouching?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>> Lluis
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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